Opening a new chapter in the cross-border cooperation between Taiwan and India, the unveiling of the Sustainable Smart City Research Laboratory of Chung Cheng University
Sep 02, 2022
With the advent of the post-epidemic era, the wave of sustainable development is sweeping the world, Chung Cheng University's "Taiwan-India Overseas Research Center for Artificial Intelligence" which has been deeply involved in India for many years is no exception. On the 2nd, the Taiwan-India AI Center of CCU and its partner school Jitkala University established the "Taiwan-India Sustainable Smart City Research Laboratory" and held an unveiling ceremony in India. In the future, the two parties will link Taiwan and India's research energy and cooperate with the Chandigarh City Government of India to jointly promote the data analysis and application of transnational sustainable smart cities, and become a model for the design of global AI sustainable smart city monitoring centers.
Today, on behalf of the CCU Taiwan-India AI Center, Bo-An Xiong, Chief Information Officer of CCU, and Ren-Song Ke, a professor of the Department of Engineering, went to Jitkala University, India. Jin-Can Wang, leader of the Technology Group of the Representative Office in India, and Madhu Jit Kara and Achana Man Cui, the founder and honorary president of Jitkala University under the joint witness of the "Taiwan-India Sustainable Smart City Research Laboratory" was officially inaugurated and opened a new page of cooperation in the sustainable development of smart cities.
At the unveiling ceremony, Ambassador Bao-Xuan Ge, the representative to India, said that in 2015, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the creation of 100 smart cities, and Chan di ga rh was selected as one of them. It has a well-planned social infrastructure and actively invests in smart transportation and smart lighting system development. Taiwan launched a smart city policy in 2018, and it is estimated to invest about US$200 million before 2023 for the construction of transportation and smart ticketing systems. Ambassador Bao-Xuan Ge hopes that the establishment of the "Taiwan-India Sustainable Smart City Research Laboratory", will spark a new spark for the bilateral technical cooperation in industry, government, academia, and research in smart transportation.
The research laboratory will be built with a joint investment of 2 million Indian currency by CCU and Jitkara University, and Dr. Rajnish Sharma, dean of Jitkara University, will serve as the executive director. In the future, Taiwan and India will focus on the application fields of smart transportation and environmental protection. Bo-An Xiong pointed out that the Indian field is very different from Taiwan in terms of traffic flow and urban traffic planning. If we can collect more relevant data, the AI model training will be more complete. The application field can also become transnational city data and a forward-looking AI model.
Four years ago, CCU received a grant from the National Science Council to establish the first "Taiwan-India Artificial Intelligence Overseas Research Center" in India, which has become an important bridge for the development of relations between Taiwan and India. In recent years, the Taiwan-India AI Center has not been afraid of the epidemic, and has repeatedly made great achievements in Taiwan-India bilateral industry-government-university-research cooperation and talent cultivation, successfully building the brand image of "Indian experts".
Jin-Can Wang said that this bilateral cooperation on smart cities has brought together 8 cross-disciplinary experts from Cheng Chung University, Yunlin University of Science and Technology, and Taitung University to integrate key forward-looking AI technologies such as smart transportation and environmental protection, strategies for the rule of law and good governance, and trustworthy AI. Sociological research and other years of research energy, applied to the Indian experimental field, hope to help solve the long-term air and water pollution and traffic congestion problems in India, benefit the Indian people, and deepen the friendly relationship between Taiwan and India.